contemporary_art – Michal Korman

By : Michal Korman Editeur 18 mars 20185 décembre 2018

My Pots

I’ve came to a decision of painting the intimate garden spaces. The moste intimate ones are flower-pots and vases – isn’t it? Therefore I paint those I possess. The first attempt dates back to 2010 when I painted a big canvas which as for object plants growing in the bathroom of my Parisian apartment.

By : Michal Korman Editeur 17 janvier 20165 décembre 2018

Decoration works

June 2015 and 2016. I got to Weligama on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, with a delivery of paintings the owner Anna Egorkina asked me for. Some of my paintings and prints were previously acquired by owner of Eraeliya Villas and Gardens and I was delighted when she asked me for more painting to be done for one of the superior rooms in the main villa: Samaya. The orderer’s idea was to have a three round paintings hung up under the roof, so they’d overlook the space of the chamber. I’ve decided to work with animal species endemitic to the island. Six weeks after the primary sketches, the paintings were drying all over my livingroom, and waiting to be wrapped and shipped to Eraeliya Villas and Gardens – a little piece of paradise on Earth. They joined my other decorative panels: “Peafowl paintings” in the lobby and “Foo dog paintings” in Nelum villa.

Michal Korman: Erealiya Villas & Gardens

Eraeliya Villas and Garden, Lobby in main Villa

Michal Korman: Peafowl paintings, 2x oil on canvas 140x70 cm, Paris 2014 — Michal Korman: Peafowl paintings, 2x oil on canvas 140×70 cm, Paris 2014

Michal Korman: Villa Nelum where my two small “chinoiserie” paintings are places at the entrance of a building.

Michal Korman: Shishi (female), oil and golden powder on canvas 72x60 cm, 2013 Paris — Michal Korman: Shishi (female), oil and golden powder on canvas 72×60 cm, 2013 Paris

Michal Korman: Shishi (male), oil and golden powder on canvas 72x60 cm, 2013 Paris — Michal Korman: Shishi (male), oil and golden powder on canvas 72×60 cm, 2013 Paris

Villa Bawana, dispositions of my works, photo: Eraeliya Villas

Michal Korman: Sigiriya (A Blue Magpie of Ceylon), oil on canvas, 100 cm diam., 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens — Michal Korman: Sigiriya (A Blue Magpie of Ceylon), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens

Michal Korman: Anuradhapura (detail of work in progress), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens

Michal Korman: Anuradhapura (A Golden palm civet), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens

Michal Korman: Kandy (A Sri-lankan grey hornbill), oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens

Michal Korman: Sigiriya, oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens

Michal Korman: Kandy, oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens

Michal Korman: Anuradhapura, oil on canvas, 100 cm, 2016 Paris, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens

Samaya Room, Eraeilya Villas and Gardens, photo: Andrew Torn

The other room on the same floor: Ramaya, also has a painting that I’ve made in 2015, it serves as a cover of the TV board. The subject is young Rama during an evening puja in a pond surrounded by tropical flora:

Michal Korman: Young Rama at the pond, oil on canvas, 2 compositions of 75x90 cm each, Weligama 2015, Eraeliya Villas and Gardens — Michal Korman: Young Rama at the pond, oil on canvas, 2 compositions of 75×90 cm each, Weligama 2015, Eraeliya Villas and Gardens

By : Michal Korman Editeur 30 novembre 201524 août 2018

Seven deadly sins

My first ever published illustrations for a story book by Milan Kališ, an young Slovak author, handle with both fascination and critique of urban life, just like the knotty, heavy jungle-like texts of the edition are. Milan gave me free hand to come with some drawings for the collection of short (and long) analysis of contemporary city life. This was rather challenging, as his writings are as complex and as detailed as could be and there was, to my eyes, no need to ‘illustrate’ these story or transfer part of them into drawing. But the idea came to me not to ‘base’ my illustration on text, but to create an independent art work to ‘add’ value to the artistic aspect of literature, better than to just describe with images what Milan brilliantly says. The trash tattoo-like or graph-like urban drawings in black and white appeared a clear option then to me, and as despair and efforts to get rid of it seemed to be the central point of his story-telling genius, I immediately thought the theme of a ‘sin’ would give the effect I looked for – not actually depicting the story on ‘other media’ level, but this could create a new story within the book based on the same kind of ‘research’ as Milan’s stories are. The choice has been made. Under the influence of my recent trips to the very medieval Avignon and Florence, I decided not to ‘picture’ the sin as an act, but I’ve turned to the medieval iconography of ‘sin-in-itself-pictured’. Giotto, Bosch, Dûrer etc. constituted for me the starting point of my research. The old playing-cards forms were another source of inspiration. The ‘seven deadly sins’ series was born and Milan accepted to integrate this to his book ‘ Rozdrásané duše ‘ ( – this would be translated as something as: Disjont souls).

Michal Kucerka: SDS ( Luxuria ), black ink on paper, 2015

Michal Kucerka: SDS ( Ira ), black ink on paper, 2015

Michal Kucerka: SDS ( Gula ), black ink on paper, 2015

Michal Kucerka: SDS ( Superbia ), black ink on paper, 2015

Michal Kucerka: SDS ( Acedia ), black ink on paper, 2015

Michal Kucerka: SDS ( Avaritia ), black ink on paper, 2015

Michal Kucerka: SDS ( Invidia ), black ink on paper, 2015

The book can be purchased it any bookshop in Slovakia, or on-line here: http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=218945

Signed and numbered giclée prints on fine art paper of these illustrations 30×20 cm can be purchased by contacting me by e-mail for 350 € (7 prints in total + international shipping included).